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Your Favorite Seuss (FIC Seuss)

This collection of thirteen Dr. Seuss stories and essays about his work is fantastic. It contains How the Grinch Stole Christmas! I have seen the television show so many times that I almost forgot how wonderful the story and illustrations are. Once again, the book is better (though in this case, the television version is pretty great too.)

 

Poetry is Everywhere

Nikki Hawkins made this beautiful found poem from a page in her English textbook for Mrs. McIver's class.

Computers and Network Load

The worst picture ever of Gibbs, a cart of 24 Chromebooks.

Last Thursday, I added an additional cart of Chromebooks. While the additional devices are great to have, they put a strain on our network. 

While our infrastructure is good, we purchased no additional bandwidth this year, so when everything is up and running, that's over 243 devices at the High School - Jr. High alone--not counting teacher computers and whatever else I forgot. SO, when things begin to slow down, remember that video and music put additional strain on the bandwidth that we are sharing and already stretching to its limits. 

Online Magazine Refresher

Remember as you research topics for school, you have access to many published online magazine, newspaper, and book sources. The state of Kansas subscribes to them, and any resident of the state can get to them and use them. The easiest way to find them is to go to the library web site (you are here!) and look at the headings along the left of the page until you find "Magazines." Click on Magazines and then click on Online Databases. A page comes up that looks like this:

That is a lot of databases, and it's kind of overwhelming. For most searches, the best sites to click are Explora (High Schools) and Explora (Middle Schools). Explora looks like this:

You can just do a simple search here. Luke Henson was searching a pretty interesting topic last week. He was trying to find out what personality traits dictators shared, with an emphasis on Hitler's personality. After trying lots of different search terms that didn't work very well, we finally typed Dictator Personality in the search bar.

You can see that the database pulled up 48 pretty good looking articles that included those two words in them. You will notice that they are Full Text articles and that along the left, you can limit them to a particular date range, reading level, publication, or source type. For example, if you just want to search Academic Journals, 2012-2014, you can do that. These are published articles, so they tend to have more depth to them than an average internet source that comes up with a Google search.

If you want to go all hard core and do an advanced search, just click Advanced. I searched Dictator AND Personality and came up with 501 pretty good results. Of course, Luke didn't need that many, so we chose a few of the best ones and went with it.

A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words

An October Mark Trail Panel
I think it's funny, ok?

Wireless Philosophy

This animated video project is the result of philosophy professors and students from Duke, Yale, Northern Illinois University, MIT, and Duquesne University working together to produce more than 100 videos on everything from An Introduction to Philosophy to The Study of Knowledge (Epistemology).

Sick of the Same Old PowerPoint and Google Slides Templates?

 Try Slides Carnival

350 Books Checked Out in November

The library continues to circulate a healthy number of books each month. In November, students checked out 350 books: 212 were Fiction, 30 Graphic Novels, and 108 Non-Fiction.

Books Waiting for the Library Aides to Shelve Them